Re: Importing Old Mail with .slt Suffix

[NoOp]

On 9/29/2016 7:56 AM, David Hume wrote:
> I am trying to import some old mail, from around the year 2000. I am not
> sure what client I was using then, maybe mozilla communicator, or
> netscape. The mail is in folders with a .slt suffix, like xx.slt. I
> tried to create a profile called xx following instructions on
> mozilla.org but it created a folder called yy.xx.
> 
> The mail is in various plain text files so I am hoping there is some way
> to create .msf indexes from it. Is there a way to do it with seamonkey
> (or thunderbird, whichever works).
> 

Give this a try:

Author's home page:
https://freeshell.de/~kaosmos/index-en.html
Latest version:
https://freeshell.de/~kaosmos/ImportExportTools-3.2.5.xpi
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Re: Importing Old Mail with .slt Suffix

[David Hume]

Daniel  writes:

> On 30/09/2016 9:25 PM, David Hume wrote:
>> It seems seamonkey doesn't permit subfolders, so I have to find the
>> plain text file of email and copy it into an existing folder, and that
>> works. But on the backup there are several files called Inbox in folders
>> for example pop3.mail.yahoo.com/Mail.
>>
> David, if it is a small number of e-mails you want, have you tried selecting
> one e-mail that you want, then select File->Save As->File, than save it
> wherever you want, and print it from there??

It's a large number of emails, maybe a decade worth. I am going to write
a script to move all the files into one place...
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Re: Importing Old Mail with .slt Suffix

[Daniel]

On 30/09/2016 9:25 PM, David Hume wrote:

It seems seamonkey doesn't permit subfolders, so I have to find the
plain text file of email and copy it into an existing folder, and that
works. But on the backup there are several files called Inbox in folders
for example pop3.mail.yahoo.com/Mail.

David, if it is a small number of e-mails you want, have you tried 
selecting one e-mail that you want, then select File->Save As->File, 
than save it wherever you want, and print it from there??


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Re: Importing Old Mail with .slt Suffix

[Chris Ilias]

On 29/09/2016 12:21 PM, David Hume wrote:

Chris Ilias  writes:



Communicator never used ".slt" folders, so I assume that profile was
created in Netscape 6. The file format is actually the same as what is
used in SeaMonkey today, so importing them is the same method as
described at
. Instead of
creating a new account, create the folders in the Local Folders
account, then close SeaMonkey and switch the new files with the old
ones.


I am a bit lost here. I have two folders of the form xx.slt. Within
those there are various things including a folder called Mail and a
folder called ImapMail. So these xx.slt are profiles I expect, so I
renamed them to xx.profile1 etc. Then edited profiles.ini so they
would be recognised. Then I started seamonkey with profile manager. I
see the various accounts, but cannot see any mail within them.


I get the impression you read the section of that page on transferring 
entire profiles, not the section on transferring mail. :)


If the account you're trying to recover was a POP account, the files 
will be stored in the \Mail\ folder.

Then there is a folder for each POP account, named after the server.
Within that account folder is a file for each mail folder (Inbox, Sent, 
etc.) The files without extension contain the messages (Inbox, not 
Inbox.msf).
1. In your current SeaMonkey profile, create a folder within the Local 
Folders account called "TEMP".
2. Close SeaMonkey, and open the profile folder of your current 
SeaMonkey profile. Navigate to \Mail\Local Folders\ directory.

3. Delete the files "TEMP" and "TEMP.msf".
4. Copy over the "Inbox" file from your old profile to the folder in the 
previous step.

5. Rename the file to "TEMP".
6. Open SeaMonkey.

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Re: Importing Old Mail with .slt Suffix

[Chris Ilias]

On 29/09/2016 10:56 AM, David Hume wrote:

I am trying to import some old mail, from around the year 2000. I am not
sure what client I was using then, maybe mozilla communicator, or
netscape. The mail is in folders with a .slt suffix, like xx.slt. I
tried to create a profile called xx following instructions on
mozilla.org but it created a folder called yy.xx.

The mail is in various plain text files so I am hoping there is some way
to create .msf indexes from it. Is there a way to do it with seamonkey
(or thunderbird, whichever works).


Communicator never used ".slt" folders, so I assume that profile was 
created in Netscape 6. The file format is actually the same as what is 
used in SeaMonkey today, so importing them is the same method as 
described at . 
Instead of creating a new account, create the folders in the Local 
Folders account, then close SeaMonkey and switch the new files with the 
old ones.


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Importing Old Mail with .slt Suffix

[David Hume]

I am trying to import some old mail, from around the year 2000. I am not
sure what client I was using then, maybe mozilla communicator, or
netscape. The mail is in folders with a .slt suffix, like xx.slt. I
tried to create a profile called xx following instructions on
mozilla.org but it created a folder called yy.xx.

The mail is in various plain text files so I am hoping there is some way
to create .msf indexes from it. Is there a way to do it with seamonkey
(or thunderbird, whichever works).
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